The People's Mandates and Messages from Midterm Elections and Need for New Leaders to Collect Themselves and Act Quickly
The 2006 Midterm Elections have sent clear messages to the leaders. First, the leaders of the new majority party should remember that the people did not necessarily vote for them. People rather voted against the GOP and Democrats turned out to be unexpected beneficiary of the peoples' revolt. It was not a vote of ideological difference and probably not even the issue of Iraq war, but a revolt against arrogance and deaf-ears of the members of the GOP positioning themselves as the "masters" rather than "servants," with accompanying corruption, moral decay, do-nothing Congress doing nothing but playing politics for self-interest rather than the welfare of the people.
We see nowadays in the electronic and paper media the leaders of Democrats celebrating in a party mood lifting and waiving arms with a big smile. We that the party should be over and they should focus on the messages of the people in the Midterm election. After all, they were also part of the out-of-control system and do-nothing Congress. There are so many areas that have been sufferring because of the deaf ears, arrogance, corruption, and do-nothing system that it should not be difficult for them to figure out and understand the mandates from the people.
Broken immigration sytem is just a tip of iceburg that should be fixed. According to the survey, the public demands the elected officials to do the job. International competion of the nation is seriously suffering in businesses, research, technology, economy, or for that matter whole areas of the lives of the people of the nation. However, we do not see any clear agenda presented by the new majority party leaders how and when they are going to fix it. In the election, people asked loudly who brought about the broken borders. It was ludicrous for them to pretend that it was caused by all others but themselves. They pretended that they were trying to fix other's guilt by enacting save-border legislations. People were too smart to be fooled around by such tricks. They underestimated the people's inelligence.
We that the party should be over because if the new majority party leaders did not get the clear messages from the Midterms elections, they should and will face "judgment" of the people themselvesin the coming 2008 national election. We urge the new leaders to turn the Congress around from the "do-nothing" Congress to "working" Congress as soon as possible. No more cute smiles and no more waiving hands. Please work out the agenda to meet the mandates and messages of the people and put into actions as quickly as possible.